When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.
What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?
Scully was appallingly gregarious—so outgoing she was practically incoming.
Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak
I’m unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A
It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.
Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unnece...
But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.
We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.
We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that’s not so clear anymore. But
No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.
My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.
My brother and sister have led extraordinary lives, but I wasn't there, and I can't tell you that part. I've stuck here to the part I can tell, the part that's mine, and still everything I've said is...
Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Sam...
It was one of her delightful qualities; she wept with those who wept.
Intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science’s excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes
We should get you Linux, too. Nobody uses Windows anymore.
WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail, I said.
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do.